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xenophobic prejudices in times of crisis

: On June Fernández-SOS Racism

xenophobic prejudices in times of crisis

the cliche says, fear is free and creates biases that help reduce uncertainty. We use them to order our minds, simplify reality to process quickly and thus feel a false sense of security that allows us to think we know who we face, is a person or an entire group to which homogenization, we can anticipate their attitudes and future behaviors. In return, yes, to limit our happiness and keep us from making a correct analysis of social realities that affect us.
Half of the Basque population is afraid that the social welfare system deteriorate with the arrival of immigrants, reveals the latest report on perceptions of the Basque Observatory of Immigration, Ikuspegi. One major bias is that capture the benefits. Bakeaz A study published in 2008, among other works, indicating that immigrants bring to the Basque economy, 23.5% more in taxes than native people (due to its higher rate of activity), while public social spending sticks to their rightful percentage (4% when the report was made).

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prostitution, hypocrisy and the Aliens Act Xenophobia and crime

Article published in September 2009 in Deia, Diario de Noticias of Giputzkoa, Gara, Begitu, Women of the World, Women in Red, E-Women and the Public as well as various feminist blogs.

prostitution, hypocrisy and the Aliens Act

On June Fernandez, a member of SOS Racism, Bizkaia, Bilbao. A sordid photos released last week by a leading English newspaper that showed scenes of explicit sex in the heart of Barcelona have reopened the debate on how institutions must act of prostitution. A necessary debate, but unfortunately, is being treated as a mere problem of public order. What worries the public is not the situation of multiple discrimination, invisibility and violations in which women live, mostly illegal immigrants, prostitutes, but their neighborhoods are interspersed with scenes look marginal.

Euskadi is no stranger to this debate. Bilbao City Council, for example, has spent months preparing an ordinance in the likeness of Barcelona. The goal, once again, not to protect Nigerian women without papers that offer sexual services in the streets of our city, but keep them dispersed and hidden (which makes the public health intervention with them) to prevent tarnish the image of the town. But the pictures of Barcelona have also served to reopen the appellant discussion between passes if the final solution to abolish or regulate prostitution. Those pushing to empty the streets of women engaged in prostitution claim the latter. In our view, however, the abolition versus regulation debate has been overtaken by social reality. It makes no sense to speak of regulation when about 90% of prostitutes are immigrants, and almost all practicing in the street are in an irregular situation. Read

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Opinion article published in August 2009 in Deia, Diario de Noticias de Gipuzkoa and Berria

Xenophobia and crime

by june fernández

In recent weeks there have been many reports in certain newspapers, signed by journalists who used to link immigration and crime, blaming open to young North Africans in an alleged increase in crime. They were responsible for an alleged rise in robberies with intimidation in the Bilbao Aste Nagusia, and are identified as the typical profile of offenders arrested in recent police operations in Donostia.

These news are based only on official data and rigorous in the account of individual policemen who disregard the recommendation of the regional ombudsman issued in 2004 not to provide the press with the origin of those arrested for not feeding xenophobia. The latest

Ikuspegi study, more than half the population thinks that the arrival of immigrants affects negatively safety. It is not uncommon, with news that young North Africans described Chavalit slapping or assaulting elderly to steal her necklace (I quote as published in certain media of wide circulation), much of the public internalize these guys are, per se

, potential offenders and also the worst sort.

chronic yielded the caricatures "more than reinforce prejudice and xenophobic stereotyping? At SOS Racism we have of course not. Furthermore, in contrast to reports serious as recently published by the Department of Justice, which states, less than 8% of young offenders are immigrants from the Maghreb. Read